How To Find Compassion For Your Loved One Who Suffers From Addiction

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Would you say that you struggle with resentment while loving someone who drinks too much or suffers from addiction? In this episode, Michelle will teach you how to let go of the anger and resentment and tap into compassion.

Here are a few key points from the episode:

Are your expectations in line with reality?
Are you trying to do their work instead of your own?
Have you tried putting yourself in your loved one’s shoes?

Read our blog at https://loveoveraddiction.com/2018/06/how-to-find-compassion/

If you want to learn more about the Love Over Addiction program, visit us at https://TheLoveOverWay.com/programs/love-over-addiction

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. Hey, it's Michelle Anderson, and I hope you are well this week and that you have enjoyed our latest formatting of our podcast.
0:27.7	Let me tell you we've got some exciting things for you.
0:30.6	We have some amazing guests coming up that I think you will find super
0:36.5	super helpful. I'm scouring the internet and Instagram and talking to friends
0:42.2	and family to bring you some top experts, not necessarily in the
0:47.4	field of addiction, but some of them are in personal finance, some of them are in law. I'm hoping to get an interview
0:58.3	with somebody who is a child psychologist that deals specifically with trauma. So I'm hoping to bring on a lot
1:08.0	more guests that will introduce tools to you and helpful tips. So make sure if you've not already to subscribe to this
1:15.4	podcast so that new episodes come in automatically and also if you wouldn't mind sharing with a friend or two, I feel like everybody knows somebody that's suffering from loving somebody with addiction.
1:30.0	So we love that. We're trying to grow this community to get our mission, which is to reach every woman in the world who is faced with addiction.
1:42.0	So today we are going to talk about
1:46.4	what it's like to be irritated at the little things and the trick to how to deal with when you're irritated, how to get it from take a bad mood into a good
1:59.6	moon. So would you say that you struggle with resentment while loving someone who drinks too much or suffers from addiction?
2:07.0	For years I would let my anger eat away at me from the inside out whenever my husband chose drinking and drugs over me.
2:16.5	I would get irritated at the little things.
2:19.9	Most of the time I felt discontent, even during the short breaks of sobriety and I felt bitterness
2:28.0	that my life was being taken over by addiction and had become a mess. I remember we used to have to schedule our
2:36.3	weekends around his drinking or partying. What I wanted to spend the day running
2:42.0	errands to Home Depot or Target, he wanted to go to the
2:46.8	sports bar and drink. But being angry at the one you love most of the time isn't healthy.
2:55.0	So how do we overcome feelings of resentment?
2:58.8	First, let's start off with the word overcome. The truth is we can't overcome anything in the
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